Wow, that is a FANTASTIC lineup, well done!! Cheers, David
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Noack Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 6:43 PM To: julia-users <[email protected]> Subject: [julia-users] JuliaCon 2016: Keynote speakers JuliaCon 2016 June 21 - 25, 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. http://juliacon.org/ On behalf of the JuliaCon 2016 committee, I am happy to announce the following keynote speakers: Timothy E. Holy, Thomas J. Sargent, and Guy L. Steele Jr. Timothy E. Holy is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2009 he received the NIH Director’s Pioneer award for innovations in optics and microscopy. His research interests include imaging of neuronal activity and his lab was probably one of the first to adopt Julia for scientific research. He is a long time Julia contributor and a lead developer of Julia’s multidimensional array capabilities as well as the author of far too many Julia packages. Thomas J. Sargent is Professor of Economics at New York University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2011 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on macroeconomics. Together with John Stachurski he founded quant-econ.net, a Julia and Python based learning platform for quantitative economics focusing on algorithms and numerical methods for studying economic problems as well as coding skills. Guy L. Steele Jr. is a Software Architect for Oracle Labs and Principal Investigator of the Programming Language Research project. The Association for Computing Machinery awarded him the 1988 Grace Murray Hopper award. He has co-designed the programming language Scheme, which has greatly influenced the design of Julia, as well as languages such as Fortress and Java. Andreas Noack JuliaCon 2016 Local Chair Postdoctoral Associate Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
